Scholarship Winners Meet Mother of Award’s Namesake
From left, Brittany Hendrix, Lisa Hess-Depalo, Amanda D’Augustino, M.S., CCC/SLP, NSU alumni and scholarship committee member, and Rachel Edrich, holding Ashley’s memorial quilt.
On December 10, 2021, Brittany Hendrix, M.S. CCC-SLP, NSU alumni, 2020 scholarship winner, and Rachel Edrich, B.S., SLP graduate student, 2021 scholarship winner, had the opportunity to meet with Lisa Hess-Depalo, M.Ed., the mother of the late Ashley Kaye Hess, whose memorial scholarship they won.
Hess-Depalo shared beautiful memories and stories of her daughter’s life with the winners, scholarship committee and a small group of faculty and students. This scholarship is provided in memory of Ashley Kaye Hess, who was a treasured part of the NSU SLP student body in 2015-2016. Many people knew and loved Ashley Kaye Hess, a cheerleader, dancer, and NSU speech-language pathology master’s candidate, before she was killed in a tragic car accident on May 14, 2016, at the age of 28.
The winners of the scholarship also shared their future goals in speech-language pathology and how they will continue to remember and honor Ashley. The scholarship information is available at https://healthsciences.nova.edu/studentaffairs/scholarships/scholarships.html, and if you are considering donating to this scholarship, information can be found under Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences–Make the Most of the Dash/Ashley Kaye Hess Changing Lives Scholarship at https://www.nova.edu/give/index.html.
Contributed by Tambi Braun, SLP.D., CCC/SLP, is an associate professor and NSSLHA mentor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology.
Posted 01/30/22